South Dakota
Awhile back, my side of the family planned a trip to South Dakota. Discussions started taking place in the fall about visiting Mount Rushmore and the area around.
We left on Friday, July 20th, and we all met in Oklahoma City since we were all travelling from different starting points. There we ate at a Cracker Barrel.
Our three car caravan had plans to make it to Grand Island, Nebraska, but we fell 41 miles short and holed up in a Holiday Inn in York, Nebraska. I know of York only from my Harding days when some would speak of a Christian college in York and from Jack Graham, a science teacher at Fort Worth Christian who has some family connection to it. The Holiday Inn gets 4 out of 5 stars.
I had my eyes set on a scenic road. The Sandhills Scenic Byway, otherwise known as Highway 2 heads northwest out of Grand Island. I shun interstates when possible and since there was not an interstate going where we were going, the byway seemed a good choice. After a stop, the first of several at Sonic locations and a Wal-mart/Subway breakfast sandwich stop, we left out of Grand Island (no idea on the island in Nebraska thing althought I guess it has something to do with the Platte River that runs through it) at approximately 10:00ish.
Corn in the next post. A lot of corn.
Awhile back, my side of the family planned a trip to South Dakota. Discussions started taking place in the fall about visiting Mount Rushmore and the area around.
We left on Friday, July 20th, and we all met in Oklahoma City since we were all travelling from different starting points. There we ate at a Cracker Barrel.
Our three car caravan had plans to make it to Grand Island, Nebraska, but we fell 41 miles short and holed up in a Holiday Inn in York, Nebraska. I know of York only from my Harding days when some would speak of a Christian college in York and from Jack Graham, a science teacher at Fort Worth Christian who has some family connection to it. The Holiday Inn gets 4 out of 5 stars.
I had my eyes set on a scenic road. The Sandhills Scenic Byway, otherwise known as Highway 2 heads northwest out of Grand Island. I shun interstates when possible and since there was not an interstate going where we were going, the byway seemed a good choice. After a stop, the first of several at Sonic locations and a Wal-mart/Subway breakfast sandwich stop, we left out of Grand Island (no idea on the island in Nebraska thing althought I guess it has something to do with the Platte River that runs through it) at approximately 10:00ish.
Corn in the next post. A lot of corn.
posted by Brian Miller at 7:16 AM
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Amazing trips. You guys do it right. You are blessed!
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